Word: conductor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hurok settled in Philadelphia, where he sold pots and pans, bundled newspapers, lost a job as a streetcar conductor because he could not pronounce the street names. He began going to concerts there, and liked them so much that when he moved to Brooklyn he decided to stage a few of his own. By 1915 he was regularly presenting such performers as Mischa Elman, Titta Ruffo and Alma Gluck in low-priced concerts at the old New York Hippodrome...
...protected," says Jack Clayton in a burst of romanticism. This is not strictly true. In her Hollywood days, Mia ground out TV's Peyton Place until she briefly became Frank Sinatra's wife. She almost became a major star in Rosemary's Baby. But after marrying Conductor Andre Previn, she opted for domestic life in England with the couple's twin sons and their adopted Vietnamese daughter. Quiet, sparrow-thin and doe-eyed, Mia hardly seems a candidate to play Fitzgerald's teasing, haughty heroine. Yet in Theoni Aldredge's exquisite period costumes...
...Wisely, conductor Robert H. Baker chose to end the concert with the Concerto instead of Haydn's 99th Symphony in E flat. The audience held its breath through Yo-Yo's first solo, a vibrant restatement of the quiet opening theme. It was perfect, and a wave of excitement swept through the auditorium as he ended the first phrase...
Altogether this was a fine performance, successful because of the sincerity of the conductor and the choir, and sincerity is the essence of this great religious work...
...unlucky production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Swedish Soprano Catarina Ligendza, scheduled for the first performances, canceled, citing illness. In turn, Tenor Jon Vickers, who is the best Tristan in the world right now, began to have second thoughts about making his Met debut in the role. Conductor Erich Leinsdorf apparently caught the pouts from him and nearly quit as well...